I'm here. I've been in one of those, "type up a post and then delete it modes" for the last several days. My daughter seems to be doing very good.

Work has been very stressful and about to get more stressful. The search for a manager for my sub-team has not led to any qualified candidates so far and we just found out that the manager of another sub-team has taken another job. She handled a huge amount of projects and kept tight control of them so we are kind of foggy on where most of them stand. I'll probably take over some of them.

Then on top of all that, rumors have been circulating about our division chief drinking on the job for several months. I took it with a grain of salt because I didn't see anything specific myself. But earlier this week I smelled alcohol on his breath at 9:00 am and then in a meeting he was having a hard time staying on topic and appeared to be at least mildly intoxicated. I don't want him to get fired. I don't know who they'd put in charge of us if that happened, but two options I can think of would be horrible for us. I feel like our team is imploding.

Oh well, what can you do. One day at a time.